“Your philosophy is not deep enough!”

I have met with this objection many times. And what’s interesting about it is that by “depth,” or “substance,” of “sophistication,” in every instance the person wasn’t asking for reason or evidence— they were asking for more rhetoric, abstraction, sophisticated form, but almost never truth.

Here premises are never even weight, because the thinker has been conditioned to merely look for a complex prose structure full of big words. (These people are essentially complaining that one’s philosophy doesn’t contain enough jargon).

One has to learn to see the depth in simple premises. This takes time. It requires one to start thinking about the premise before them.

Beware that your philosophy is not merely a sophisticated form of empty and irreverent abstraction. The danger is real.